Riverina Lung Multidisciplinary Team

Services

Team

Contact and Meeting Times

Services

A multidisciplinary team of specialists, nurses and allied health professionals providing specialist care in the treatment of Thoracic/Lung Cancer. This team has regular multidisciplinary care team meetings where specialists can present patient cases for multidisciplinary discussion of all available treatment options.

The multidisciplinary team meeting is run out of the Riverina Cancer Care Centre with both public and private patients discussed. The surgeons, medical oncologists and radiation oncologists consult and treat both public and private patients, thus refer all of these patients for discussion at the lung multidisciplinary team meetings. A cardiothoracic surgeon from Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney connects to the meeting via video conference.

Professionals

2017 Quality Statement

“Excellence in Care”

The provision of excellent care to Riverina Cancer Care Centre (RCCC) patients is achieved by Centre staff and Volunteers’ participation in and observance of the Centre’s Quality system in the performance of their roles. Cooperation, collaboration, communication and mutual respect are critical to provision of excellent care.